PROBLEM 1: Disappointment at someone getting 40 stories & another getting too few. SOLUTION 1: I think we should drop the idea of writing as many stories as there are years. It's a tempting prospect for some birthday recipients, but let's be frank, it's unfair to some others. Above all, writers struggle to finish writing stories they have already promised, let alone write such huge amounts of other stories. Goals will not be met. Unless they're drabbles, in which case it won't be too hard to give every birthday recipient a good number of drabbles. But then again it might lead to information overload.
PROBLEM 2: Limiting the no. of requests a birthday recipient can make. SOLUTION: Let the birthday boy/girl pour out his/her heart. If you must impose a limit, make it something like 10 stories at the most. What I said was to try and write as many stories as possible, not all.
PROBLEM 3: Disparity in word limit, such as drabbles and epics. SOLUTION: The standard is a story of 2000 to 5000 words. It may exceed that, or may fall short. If a birthday recipient requests something much longer, writers can flock together and write it as a joint enterprise, and not focus too much on the other requests. That way the possibility of it getting written is more, and the writers' burdens fall. We'll impose a restriction, such that if the recipients at all wants a story that exceeds 5000 words by a really wide margin (like something that has chapters), he/she can only issue one such request.
Anything else? Is someone willing to re-post the birthday announcement with these changes? And with a link to the original post?
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Date: 2009-06-13 01:13 pm (UTC)SOLUTION 1: I think we should drop the idea of writing as many stories as there are years. It's a tempting prospect for some birthday recipients, but let's be frank, it's unfair to some others. Above all, writers struggle to finish writing stories they have already promised, let alone write such huge amounts of other stories. Goals will not be met. Unless they're drabbles, in which case it won't be too hard to give every birthday recipient a good number of drabbles. But then again it might lead to information overload.
PROBLEM 2: Limiting the no. of requests a birthday recipient can make.
SOLUTION: Let the birthday boy/girl pour out his/her heart. If you must impose a limit, make it something like 10 stories at the most. What I said was to try and write as many stories as possible, not all.
PROBLEM 3: Disparity in word limit, such as drabbles and epics.
SOLUTION: The standard is a story of 2000 to 5000 words. It may exceed that, or may fall short. If a birthday recipient requests something much longer, writers can flock together and write it as a joint enterprise, and not focus too much on the other requests. That way the possibility of it getting written is more, and the writers' burdens fall. We'll impose a restriction, such that if the recipients at all wants a story that exceeds 5000 words by a really wide margin (like something that has chapters), he/she can only issue one such request.
Anything else? Is someone willing to re-post the birthday announcement with these changes? And with a link to the original post?